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Oxymel of Squill wrote:

If it's a new pond I suggest leaving it at least a month before
putting in plants and then another year before introducing fish. Maybe
that's a bit ott and people in this group laugh at me for it, but it
works.

It does seem like overkill..............
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It's more than overkill. I filled the new 500 gallon holding "pond" for my
young koi, ran a foamer all night, added the plants the next morning and the
koi that afternoon. Within an hour the young fish were begging to be fed.
Not one has died. No dechlorinator was used. There was no ammonia spike
probably due to the nitrifying bacteria on and plants, the pots or the
floaters roots.
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